Are the words mightier than the sword?

Answer 1

yes....though we cannot see the wounds it can create scars as deep as a sea....

Answer 2

Depends on how they are used. If you use a sword to dethrone a king, for example (not recommended), then the sword would be mightier, but if you use words to say, start a revolution and cause a civil war (also not recommended), then words would be mightier.

Answer 3

May be true but follow the rules for speak the words

There are five ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed:

Potential pause
A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic words.

Indivisibility
A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra words added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become I and my family have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an," the verb ankommen is separated.

Minimal free forms
This concept was proposed by Leonard Bloomfield. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves. This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).

Phonetic boundaries
Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish): the vowels within a given word share the same quality, so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. However, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.

Semantic units
Much like the abovementioned minimal free forms, this method breaks down a sentence into its smallest semantic units. However, language often contains words that have little semantic value (and often play a more grammatical role), or semantic units that are compound words.

In practice, linguists apply a mixture of all these methods to determine the word boundaries of any given sentence. Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive.

Answer 4

Almost.....
Its the PEN.
The Pen in mightier than the sword

Answer 5

The saying is 'The pen is mightier than the sword.
It means that by writing you can convince others, educate, enlighten, and create more change than by using force to impose your will.
Educating a people (though the pen) can lead to real and permanent change by changing the way people think.

Answer 6

Yes, if you consider that if a sword is properly used, one dies and one feels no more pain. Words can hurt us for the rest of our lives.

I use to say that psychological violence is worse than physical agression.

I also agree with Tenn Girl.

Answer 7

It's kinda like the ant-elephant situation. Without thinking, most people would say that an elephant is definitely stronger than an ant.

But when they think about it carefully, they realize that the ant is actually stronger than any elephant ever born.

So yes, words are definitely stronger.

Answer 8

Bored

Answer 9

Yes, a poison tongue can break a heart much faster than a sword.

Answer 10

it used to be the Pen, but now it is words, radio and the Internet have changed it.It took one word for the fastest genocide in human history 9Rwanda) to happen.

Answer 11

I have never been hurt by a sword! xx